I don't need to listen to anyone to come to the conclusion that gun barrel diplomacy practiced on foreign soil leads to more enemies than friends. Nor does it take much of a stretch to understand that these actions also have costs in both human life and financial impact.

The bottom line is if we choose to "defend oppressed people", where should it start and end, who determines the beginning and ending points and strategies, and what will be the determining factors in making such decisions? All in all that's way too slippery a slope to reasonably venture forth onto.

The problem is the world cop routine doesn't work, never has and never will. Unless your goal is to encourage enemies while racking up dead Americans and spending billions upon billions of dollar$ doing it, you'll never be successful.

Then again, if that type of outcome is the goal, who would actually be in support of it? The simple answer is NOT a large segment of the American populace. Sadly, our elected offials just turn a deaf ear to what the average citizen thinks, much less really cares about